JEFFREY SILVERTHORNE
(1946 - 2022), b. Honolulu, Hawaii
Jeffrey Silverthorne, Dressing room, La Villa Blanc, Albuquerque, 1971
Jeffrey Silverthorne, born in 1946 in Honolulu, Hawaii, was an American photographer known for photographing the dead at the state morgue of Rhode Island in the 1970s, documenting the Transvestites community of New York and the Boystown brothels of the Mexican-American border. He received many awards and was the recipient of the 1986 National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including a career retrospective, “The Precision of Silence” at the Musée Nicéphore Niépce. His major publications include, “Morgue,” “Boystown: The Perfume of Desire” and “Directions for Leaving.” He resided in Rhode Island, where he taught at the Roger Williams University.
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EDUCATION
M.F.A., 1977, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
Master of Arts in Teaching, 1970, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
B.F.A., 1969, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, R.I.
EXPERIENCE
2002 - Present Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, Professor of Art
2001 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Adjunct Professor
2001 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, Adjunct Professor
2000 - 2001 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, Full-Time Visiting Lecturer
1998 - 2000 University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, Adjunct Professor
1996 – 1997 McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, Associate Professor
1995 - 1996 Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA, Executive Director
Responsible for programming, fundraising and staff management.
1991 - 1995 South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, Education Coordinator
In-house/Outreach Programs, 35-40 faculty members, docent program, lecture series
1990 - 1991 Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY
Assistant Professor, Photography, History of Photography, 2-D Design
1989 - 1990 Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, Visiting Professor, Photography, 2-D Design
1988 - 1989 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI., Instructor, Photography
1985 - 1987 Free-Lance Photographer; Architecture and Portraits
1984 - 1985 University of Houston Houston, TX, Visiting Assistant Professor, Photography
1972 - 1973 Wheelock College, Boston, MA, Instructor, Art History, Film, Photography
SELECTED ONE PERSON SHOWS
Pascaline Mulliez Galerie, Paris, France, 2016
Kehrer Berlin Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2015
FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium, 2015
Galerie VU', Paris, France, 2014, 2011
Musee Niepce, Chalon Sur Saone, France, 2014
Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013, 2011
Fotografie Noorderlicht, Groningen, NL, 2011
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010
Galerie VU', Recontres d'Arles, Arles, France, July 2008
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1999, 2008
Fotografisk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007
Ahorn-Grieneisen Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2005
Book Beat Gallery, Oak Park, MI 1990, 1993, 1994, l998, 2000, 2002, 2004
Loomis Chaffee Art Gallery, Windsor CT, 2004
C Pop Gallery, Detroit, MI 2002
Artists' Alliance, Lafayette, LA 1999
University of Toledo, OH 1998
The Deep Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1997
Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany 1993, 1995, 1997
Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic, 1995
Galerie Stelling, Leiden, Holland 1994
Museum for Photography, Antwerp, Belgium 1994
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA 1992
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1991
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 1991
Columbia College, Chicago, IL 1987
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 1985
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 1984
Ufficio Dell 'Arte, Paris, France 1982
Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY 1982
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 1977
Witkin Gallery, New York, NY 1973
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1972
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. 1968, 1974
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France, Oct., 2008
RENEGADE, Projection Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 2008
Bozar, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2008
Paris Photo, Gallerie VU’, Paris, France, 2007
Gallery Z, Providence, RI, 2007
Rogue Artists Studios , Manchester UK, 2006
Impression 2006, Grafisch Centrum HogeDrukgebied, Rotterdam, Holland 2006
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ, 2005
Photographs Do Not Bend, Dallas, TX, 2002, 2005, 2007
L A. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2004
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, 2002
Here is New York, New York, NY, 2002
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1974, 1976, 1977, 2002
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1999, 2002
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, 2001
Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland 2000
Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal 1999
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 1999
Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA 1999
Photographic Center, Skopelos, Greece 1998
Flying over water, Curator Peter Greenaway, Foundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, 1997
Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany 1997
Galerie A, Stuttgart, Germany 1997
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1995
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1995
American Center in France, Paris, France 1995
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1994
The Drawing Center, New York, NY 1993
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1991
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1989
Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1989
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1988
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY 1982
Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France 1982
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge, MA 1980
Boston Museum School, Boston, MA 1980, 1984
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1979, 1989
International Center of Photography, New York, NY 1976
Hallmark Gallery, New York, NY 1969
Underground Gallery, New York, NY l969
SELECTED LECTURES
PhotoAlliance, San Francisco, CA, 2016
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1973, 1981, 1994, 2004, 2016
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2016
FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium, 2015
International Center for the Arts at Monte Castello, Umbria, Italy, 2014
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2012
Fotografie Noorderlicht, Groningen, NL 2011
Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2010
Cobertura Photo, Seville, Spain 2010, 2011
Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Photographie, Arles, France 2009
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, March 2008
Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark 2007
Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK 2006
Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2006
UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA 2006, 2010
Humboldt University/Ahorn-Grieneisen, Berlin, Germany 2005
Boston University, College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2004
Salve Regina College, Newport, RI 2003
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 1973, 1977, 2003
Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT 2002
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 2001, 2002
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1974, 1981, 1983, 2001
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 1984, 2000
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 2000
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY, 2000
Kendall College of Art, Grand Rapids, MI, 2000
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 1998
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 1998
College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 1997
University of Arizona, Department of Art, Tucson, AZ 1997
New York University. New York. NY 1991, 1997
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1996
Galerie 4, Cheb, Czechoslovakia, 1995
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1991, 1994
Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 1993
Illinois State University, Normal, IL 1992
The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA 1992
Chautauqua Institute, School of the Arts, Chautauqua, NY 1991
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 1990
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1989
Carnera Obscura,Tel Aviv, Israel 1988
Tufts University, Medford, MA 1987
University of Maryland, Baltimore. MD 1987
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1983, l986
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 1985
Boston Museum School, Boston, MA 1981, 1984
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1980
Columbia College, Chicago, IL l974
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1973
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Morgue, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Stanley/Barker, London, UK, 2017
Studio Work, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Pascaline Mulliez Galerie, Paris, France, 2016
Working, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, + Les editions de l'Oeil, Montreuil, France, 2014
Jeffrey Silverthorne, Portraits & Figures, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark; +
Les editions de l'Oeil, Montreuil, France, 2013
Travel Plans, Noorderlicht, NL + les editions de l'oeil, FR, 2011
EYEMAZING, Amsterdam, NL, Issue 04-2011; + Issue 04-2012
foam, summer 2011, Foam Magazine, Amsterdam, NL
TRAVERSES, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 2010
Boystown, The Perfume of Desire, Galerie Wolfsen, Alborg, Denmark, 2009, forwards by Anne
Biroleau- Lemagny, General Curator, Bibliotheque nationale de France; Jon Hendricks, Fluxus
Consulting Curator, MoMA, NY
Images magazine, Anne Biroleau presente Jeffrey Silverthorne, Nov. 2009, Paris, France
Private mag. #46, Mental Geography, Saint-Brisson, France, 2009
VU MAG, #4, Emergence, Galerie VU', Paris, France, 2009
Art in America, mag. Mar. 2009, NY, NY
SHOTS, mag., #105, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
The British Journal of Photography, Dec. 2008, London, England
Maskinfabrik, #36, mag., Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008
Photos Nouvelles, mag., Paris-Biarritz, France, 2008
70' La Photographie Americaine, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, Fance, 2008
VU MAG, #1, Filiations, Galerie VU', Paris, France, 2008
Directions For Leaving, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Photographs, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark with
Introductions by E. Annie Proulx, letter from Robert Frank, 2007
Die Nue Sichtbarkeit Des Todes, Wilhelm Fink Publisher, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Bizarre Magazine, London, England 2006
V&A Magazine (Victoria and Albert Museum) London, England 2005
Apfelboeck or About Killing, city of Munich, Munich, Germany 2004
Odalisques, Marval Publishers, 2004
Here is New York, Rizzoli Press, New York, NY, 2002
Goth, Subrosa Press, Detroit, MI, 21 original photographs by J. Silverthorne, ed. of 50, Poetry by
Cary Loren, Destroy All Monsters, 2002
Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, Abrams, 1999
Dialogue Magazine, Columbus, OH Nov/Dec 1998
Body Icons, Photographic Center of Stopples, Stopples, Greece 1998
Sleep: Bedtime Reading, Universe Publishing, Spring 1998
Flying over water/Volant damunt l'aigua, Peter Greenaway, Merrell Holberton Publishers Ltd., London, England 1997
Dark Days, Aperture, NY, NY 1997
Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895/1995, Marsilio, Venice, Italy 1995
The Human Body in Photography, 1849 to the Present, William Ewing, Ed., Thames & Hudson, London, England 1994
Endzeitstimmung, (Apocalyptic Mood) series Dumont Tashchenbucher, Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne, Germany 1994
Jeffrey Silverthorne Photographs, Galerie A and Book Beat Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany 1993
Photonews, Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 1993
Picturing Ritual, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY 1993
Creative Camera. London, England, June/July 1993
Granta, Granta Publications Ltd., New York, NY, Spring 1992
The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1991
The Surgeon's Ontic: Silverthorne's Eschatology Monograph Series. Arizona State University,Tempe, AZ 1991
NewArt Examiner, Chicago, IL, November l989
New Nude Two, Japan 1985
Selections 2, Verlag Photographie, Germany l984
Private Viewing, New Leaf Publishers, London, England 1983
Creatis, No. 18, Paris, France 1982
New American Nudes, Morgan & Morgan, Dobbs Ferry, NY 1981
Camera Magazine, October 1974
Modern Photography Annual, New York, NY 1969
VIDEOS
Letters From The Dead House, 2005
Camera, Jeffrey Silverthorne; Sound and Editing, Carey Loren
PROJECTIONS
SevillaFOTO, lll festival de fotografia, Seville, Spain, 2010
Renegade Collective; PhotoFest Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2010; Accrochage #1, and “Kubik”,
Gorizia, Italy, 2010; Copenhagen, Denmark 2008, 2009
WORKSHOPS
International Center for the Arts in Monte Castello, Umbria, Italy, Light and Gravity, 2015
FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium, Self Portrait, Identity, and Representation, 2015
COBERTURA Photo, Seville, Spain, Portraits, Road Trip, 2014
European Traveller, 1000 Words, London, England, March, 2013
COBERTURA Photo, Seville, Spain, June 2010, Narrating The Figure
HONORS
MacCall- Johnson Fellowship Finalist, Providence, RI, 2007
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, 2001, guest critic
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I., 2000, guest critic
Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY, Artist's Residency, 1999, deferred
Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist's Mini Grant, 1999
Moderator, The Grotesque in Art, University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ 1997
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Works On Paper, First Prize 1996
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, 18th Biennial, Best of Show, 1993
Art Matters Inc, New York, NY, Grant Recipient, 1992
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., Grant Recipient 1986
Massachusetts Artists Foundation, Boston, MA, Grant Recipient 1979
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Museum of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Foundation Frances, Senlis, France
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Museum for Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
State Gallery of the Czech Republic, Galerie 4, Cheb, Czech Republic
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Isabelle Darrigrand, Paris/Biarritz, France
Lars Schwander, Copenhagen, Denmark
Christian Caujolle, Paris, France
Marin Karmitz, Paris, France
Pascaline Mulliez, Paris, France
Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
